Re: About quoting text, about emacs.

[David Ellement]

On 010725, at 15:05:58, Jens Paulus wrote
> 1.) Editing an email with vim/mutt, I sometimes wish to insert/quote
> text from another email that I'm not currently replying to.

Assuming you know which messages you want to quote before starting
your reply, you can tag all the messages before starting your reply.
Each message will appear quoted in your editor separated by a blank
line.  However, mutt doesn't keep track of the tag order, and for
mbox folders at least, the reply goes to the first message in the
folder.

(A workaround is to copy the message you want to reply to into a
temporary folder, then copy all the messages you want to quote,
change to the temporary folder, tag all, then reply).


Historical note: circa mutt 0.80, Don Blaheta worked on a patch to
control tag order.  But he didn't quite finish, and no one else
picked up where he left off.

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David Ellement